Chapter Four: THE PERFECT CENTERPIECE

Copyright 2004 by Carol Pomeroy

Think of the last 25 homes you have been privileged to enter. You were invited to see the homes and their personalities were there before you. There were the computers, the collections of glass elephants and perhaps, some seashells.

What was missing in each home?

A centerpiece...

You could not find the keynote for each unique family or business.

Why do we find the lack of a theme in so many homes or offices? It may be because houses are expensive and after a down payment has been raised the interior furnishings must be gradually acquired over the years. The mortgage payment and the needs of the family must come first. However, the family members continue year after year to make improvements. They purchase many items to fill the bare
spots or spend hundreds of dollars to have the walls papered or the color changed.

My suggestion for instant home or office improvement is to study the condition and then take the $400 and use it as a down payment on a keynote theme that fits your family or your office.

Catch the spirit of the family or business under your roof.
Tie it all together with a fine painting. Buy yourself a treasure that you feel was painted just for you. Choose a work of fine value that will be a present for your loved ones that will appreciate and will continue to evoke happy memories.

Buy what?


What you love -- the work of an artist you identify with... Could it the last place you vacationed with your family at the seashore, a special floral you love, or a landscape in the style of the old masters, remembering that, even as the earliest people decorated their walls and attempted through art to make their surroundings beautiful, a reflection of them, so we do today.

How refreshing to lift the eyes and see beauty that carries us beyond the moment. No wonder we enjoy fine paintings.

Artists are the ones that express for us real beauty, even as the poets find the words for us all.

This is first in a series of themes that will be discussed...

This could also be true of a business. What do you sell? What is important to you? Want to make a long-lasting statement and have people remember you?
Every person who steps through your doors would see and remember a breathtaking painting of polar bears.

Can you imagine in your 'minds eye' sitting in a beautiful room with three large white leather sofas in a circle in front of an immense marble fireplace. As you sit there, listing perhaps to someone talk about a new idea for your business, restful music in the background, you glance at the fire occasionally, then you look up at the breathtaking painting of a polar bear family, two polar bear babies are in or near the greenish-blue water. The mother and the father are looking on… For just a moment you are there...

This unique painting is by famous artist Rophar, an artist who is collected by stars, politicians, and many others. Notice the greenish-blue accents in the room, picking up the color of the water. This makes for a special room with a major focal point: The painting.

The greenish-blue color picked up in perhaps pillows on the sofas to tie it in with the painting. Also on one of the tables are exquisite white roses in a silver vase…again tied in with the painting.


Actually this same theme could be used in an office or in a home.

Are you interested in creating just the right centerpiece? Read my next blog.